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Spam Comment With Link To Its Article

We got this spam comment yesterday with link to the article itself: It points to the very article it tries to comment.

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Some questions pop up instantly:

  • Will marking this as spam give our Justaddwater blog bad karma in Akismet?
  • Why would spammers do this? What are they trying to achieve?
  • Has this anything to do with our declared spam filter free day on December 15?

For now, we blocked the comment but didn’t mark it as spam… Perhaps it would be most appropriate to delete the justaddwater URL, and then mark as spam? What do you think?

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This entry was posted by Jesper Rønn-Jensen on Wednesday, December 12th, 2007 at 13:51 (GMT-1) and is filed under justaddwater.dk. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

4 Responses to “Spam Comment With Link To Its Article”

  1. Phil Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 14:51 (GMT-1)

    That is weird, I’ve never seen that before! Perhaps the spammers are trying to give decent sites a bad name. I’d remove your link and send it off to Akismet to deal with, at least you can’t be attached to it then.

  2. Jesper Rønn-Jensen Says:
    December 13th, 2007 at 11:27 (GMT-1)

    Thanks for your comment, Phil! I have now replaced the url

    from
    justaddwater.dk/2005/12/02/yahoo-alerts-mail-rss/#respond
    to
    #respond

    I really hope Akismet picks this up. (actually i accidentally marked the comment as spam with our justaddwater.dk url, so I hope Akismet does not misunderstand it)

  3. BoltClock Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 12:21 (GMT-1)

    You may wish to give Delink Comment Author a shot.

  4. Sam Nichols Says:
    December 18th, 2008 at 18:02 (GMT-1)

    Maybe someone was testing a new commenting “tool”..and was doing tests on the blog